Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the cartoonist Patrick McDonnell talks about his strips encouraging the First Family-elect to adopt a shelter animal as the White House dog, a perfect fit of cartoonist and public position. I just took my family's shelter dogs into the vet for their three-year rabies shots, and as far as I could tell they were just as attentive, affectionate and handsome as the purebreeds in the waiting room.

* I told you this was going to happen. Rob Tornoe reports on Clark Kent being let go by a financially strained Daily Planet.

* not comics: an entertainment reporter lists comics that shouldn't be made into movies. I think all comics should be made into movies if people want to make them into movies. Why not?

* the New York Times collects comics quotations. The one comics quotation that worked its way into my regular speech at one time in my life was a paraphrase of something Jaime Hernandez had Maggie Chascarillo say in Death of Speedy: "I haven't been scared of anything since the 9th grade." Reid Fleming's "78 Cents or I'll piss on your flowers" would have been up there, too, but I was confronted with more situations to comment on scary things than the opportunity to threaten old ladies. There should be a place for comics industry quotations, too, such as "It's not enough anymore to kick ass; we must now kill ass." That one still cracks me up.

* things I didn't know and might still not know because it's, well, wikipedia: B. Kliban's widow married Bill Bixby?

* I would imagine that this decision by the Pulitzer committee to include submissions from web-only news outlets could conceivably have an impact on a few cartoonists, but I'm unable to come up with a name or two that directly applies.
 
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